#trie

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#contact #elsewhere #exists #intelligent #intelligent life

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#character #define #doing #everyone #hard

I tried to learn the violin for a while. ↗

— Peter Wright

#i tried #learn #tried #violin #while

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#fast #horror #horror movies #i #i tried

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth. ↗

— Eric Anderson

#company #countries #first #first time #history

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#joe #loss #mary #never #rarely

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #complex #easy #i #motivation

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies. ↗

— Daisy Bates

#his #ideal #man #pursue #tries

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#everything #medium #must #new #photography